"I've Been to the Mountaintop". background On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis providing support and encouragement to 1300 African- American.

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Presentation on theme: ""I've Been to the Mountaintop". background On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis providing support and encouragement to 1300 African- American."— Presentation transcript:

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background On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King was in Memphis providing support and encouragement to 1300 African- American sanitation workers who had walked off their jobs in that city. His soaring prose repeats the mission that defined his life – the achievement of justice and equality for African-Americans which our constitution promised to each and every one of us. He made it clear that “We mean business now and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God’s world

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Divisions of time That is where we are today. Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period to see what is unfolding. Now, we've got to keep attention on that. Now we're going to march again

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We-us We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you. I call upon you to be with us when we go out Monday. We need all of you. that means all of us together

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Repeated messages "We want to be free” "Over my head I see freedom in the air” “It means that we've got to stay together”. “We've got to stay together and maintain unity”. “Now let us maintain unity”. Well, I don't know what will happen now.

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Personal stories I can remember -- I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out But I'm going to tell you what my imagination tells me

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Realigns examples I would turn to the Almighty You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and saith, "When God speaks who can but prophesy? One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!

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Realigns examples I would turn to the Almighty You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and saith, "When God speaks who can but prophesy? One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!